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es chocolate ca
d out of the phone, small and
ig chocolate cake, and Daddy was laughing the whole time. Can
and full of lies. "Daddy's very busy,
you break it, you
promise
pressed p
ag
ters of Puget Sound smashed against the rocks, and the wind tore through
eattle was lighting up wit
Noel's six
ate cake. There was
lack box in Ivy's arms,
thday with his father. No
n too many to count. The cuts on her wrists were deep. She had mad
ight. Ten minu
l," she whispered
tore acro
away. The rear window slid down, and in the
ic Pi
Seattle. The man who ha
her of
al gown, sat Ivy's stepsister, Celeste Shaw. Celeste's eye
t if she does something to Theo? What if-" She b
photographed at charity galas on his father's knee. While Noel grew up hidden in a back bedroom
't," Dom
Celeste when he said it
te out of the car as if she were made of glass. They walked through
rfect
there!" Iv
sto
te. "Your son is we
"Ivy, please, I know you're grieving, but Th
d flat. "Noel's corneas went to Theo on my
. Of course s
steady voice, as if he were signing off on a m
ars old, Domin
drowning," he said. "That's the t
whipped her hair back, and his eyes
he s
t there himself three years ago, with a le
owed my family a life. Now your son is gone. Consider the debt paid. Come a
for a
l had ever been
the file I sent
red across his f
the staff laughed. Theo sitting on his back. The nanny slapping him when Theo fell and cried." Her voice cracked into
e went
head, very slowly
hought he might actually see it
leste grabbed his sleeve. "She
in her bloody fingers was a small bl
Her voice was eerily calm. "Room 412. Recovering fr
cream split
t now. Watch every minute of what they did to our son.
six years, Dominic's voice
tch
hrieked toward the trees. "Shoot
was no
olding it for three days because she couldn't make herself let go. She could never hurt a child. Not even that one. She h
er mouth to
ame out of
t. The remote slipped from her fingers and skittered across the
VY
nything, who never raised his voice, was running toward
him by the arms a
as reachin
in six years he had
la
d her son and let herself f
kisses. Somewhere far away, a ch
be scared. I
his gap-toothed smile
led and
swallowed
I'll protect you. I'll burn the whole wor
ac
o
pou
Hart, open this
into her eyes.
ble. Gold fixtures. A woman stared back a
face.
ooked
was a preg
ink l
istmas Eve, on a cliff,
n the morning she found out

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